2. But in this particular virtue is
contained also the prizes of liberty. For: “The wife
is bound as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband fall asleep
she is freed: let her marry whom she will, only in the
Lord. But she will be happier if she so abide, after my judgment,
for I think I also have the Spirit of God.” 1 Cor. vii. 39, 40. Evidently, then, the Apostle has
expressed the difference, having said that the one is bound, and stated
that the other is happier, and that he asserts not so much as the
result of his own judgment, as of the infusion of the Spirit of God;
that the decision should be seen to be heavenly, not human.